John Vere

I still have W7 computer that was built by me to be my DAW machine. It rarely saw the internet and ran Sonar 8.5. It’s in the closet right now but a while ago I fired it up and it still works. I put CbB on it then and had no issues but it was real slow! I disconnected the C drive ( 7200) and put a SSD drive in it. I managed to install windows 10 for free using the W7 license. What a difference those things made. But I’m keeping the W7 drive as a last resort if things go sideways with Cakewalk That’s one of the things we over look. W10 and CbB is much more responsive.

It's not clear which Bandlab product your refering to. The Bandlab App is completely different than Cakewalk DAW Software. Have you watched the basic Tutorials on how to set up and use midi or are you just jumping in with both feet hoping things will work the way you think the should? Cakewalk is complicated so it is advised you spend some time watching the videos or reading the documentation. Nothing is broken in Cakewalk at this point in time. You'll just have to study the basics and how things work first.

This is being fixed as we no long will be required to use the Bandlab Assistant https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=NewFeatures.03.html

You can take this further. You could have 3 Busses with 3 different effect chains or settings of the same effects. You then have a Pre-Master bus which by simply changing it's output to one of those 3 busses can give you a good A/B/C of how your mix will sound. Then of course Mix Recall should do the same thing as well but not sure, haven't tested it.

Most people only drop the video into cakewalk as a guide to score the music to. Once you have your music track you export it as a wave file and drag it to the original in your video editing software. The quality of the video in Cakewalk is not the greatest.

My story for what it's worth is I was actually happily using my Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 1st Gen. But the driver was getting old and I had GAS. I was just going to purchase a 6i6 3rd Gen. but they discontinued it. The 8i6 is the closest replacement but now we are looking at $450 Can. So I compared all interfaces with the features I wanted and decided to go with the M4 even though it had 2 things missing, no power supply and no SPDIF. I rarely use SPDIF anymore and can always dust off the 6i6 or my Tascam if needed. The buss power was an issue in the end. I thought I'd repurpose the 6i6 using it for my office compute. Lo and behold when installing the driver I notice it's an update! Anyway I almost sent the Motu M4 back to exchange for the 8i6 as it was defiantly performing terrible compared to the 6i6. I had to raise my buffers more than double to stop the stuttering and static?? So much for Motu having the best drivers myth. I contacted support and I was told that this was due to me using a shared USB hub?? The solution was to purchase and install a dedicated USB 3 PCIe card. That was $35 now added to the cost of the interface. It seemed to fix the issue but I will never purchase any buss powered interface again. They are just cheaping out if they don't at least give you the option of a power supply. But I will probably return to a Focusrite next time around but by then things could change. That is why I made a sort video on the subject. https://youtu.be/ZWuzhOUM9IQ

Mabey what would be faster would be if I make a short video when I get a chance. Then you can SEE what we are talking about. I'll try to do this tonight. Everybody does it a little differently but for the most part most long time users have always stored projects on a second drive. We are talking about a proper desktop system which will hopefully have the recommended 3 drives. Laptops rarely have 2 drives so you either have a large internal drive or use external. Not a system I would want to be stuck with. My Laptop has 2 drives because to me this is critical if I'm using it for recording. So a question for you Gary.. Is this a desktop with 2 drives or a Laptop with one?

What would be helpful then is a screen shot of the Preferences/ Audio/Device list in ASIO mode. As far as I can see in Asio4all you seems to have way more inputs than that device actually has. According the videos and looking at the device it has 4 XLR, 2 Combi and then the 2 built in mikes for a total of 8 inputs. So this make perfect sense as the device is called an 8 track recorder. ASIO4all seems to think there are 12. So this must be either typical asio4all mistake or those represent 12 tracks, not inputs. This is why I I mentioned this in the first post. I have a hunch this is a Zoom ASIO driver issue if not all the inputs show in Cakewalk but without the screen shot I am only speculating. Cakewalk can only show what the driver presents. Zoom has a reputation for not supplying stellar ASIO drivers. FYI, asio4all is not an ASIO driver, it is actually a wrapper for WDM mode and because we now have WASAPI modes in W10, asio4all is not recommended as it's performance is sub par to WASAPI. Your tracks will most likely have syncing issues. If there is an ASIO driver, use it.. if it's not working properly, contact the manufacture and demand an update that repairs any issues. Zoom makes awesome stuff, I have a few products and so do people I know. But the audio interface part has never been solid.

Agreed with what Steve just said. I always change the pathway for Cakewalk projects to the root of my data drive. Because I have a few different "album" folder there I prefer to then just navigate to the next level manually. If I'm working on a certain album i will take the time to then change the pathway to that folder to save time. Real easy to do. The desktop is a messy way to store things. It's just like never putting stuff in the filing cabinets. Windows purposefully used office work environment terminology for a reason.

Funny how you noticed that as well. It might even explain why they didn’t include WASAPI exclusive support for the drivers.

You posted while I was replying so did not see that. Your overthinking this. Everything to do with each project should be in a folder as I said above. If you have data spread all around your C drive then best way is to open each project and use “Save as “ and point that at the new drive. Make sure to check the copy audio box. This will creat a folder on the new drive with everything for that project in it. Before you delete the original files open the save as version on a different computer to test.

Same here. I often record remote sessions on my laptop and transfer to a external drive then to my main computer. I actually have 3 computers I might use The laptop and 2 desktops. This also serves as a backup system. All I do is make a container folder for the “album “ of songs. Each song “project “ is in its own folder inside the container folder. Drag and drop the album folder to wherever At any given time I will have at least 4 copies of this folder which I always date. Ive never in the ?16 years I’ve worked this way lost a project or had any issues opening them on any other machine. Of course there might be a missing weird plug in but that’s rare for me. I’ve only ever used CWP files. In the old days we called it per project folders. What find now is it is critical to check the copy all audio with project box when using Save as

First minimize the pro channel fly out. Your not supposed to open that unless your making changes. Then if you hover the mouse in the right spot near the bottom a menu will open where you can choose narrow strips. Narrow strips can be used for tracks that don’t need much attention to detail. I leave as many as I can full size. With that menu you can also hide strips

I have a Motu M4. My only gripe has been I needed to purchase a dedicated USB 3 pci card to make it work. It is buss powered. I see the Ultralite has a power supply so that is good. The driver has one weird issue which normally shouldn't matter, but it doesn't support WASAPI Exclusive. Otherwise of course you always use ASIO. Other than that I think Motu is a good brand.

The reason that happens is audio tracks don't need all the stuff midi does. So the extra strip for a midi track is much needed. Great job as always and I 100% agree with how many people never take the time to explore all of Cakewalks hidden gems. It was only a year ago that I started to find all those little toggles and I immediately changed from using my typical menu system to the icons. But you got me curious about using input quantize. You demo had me thinking it only would keep the 1/8 notes and delete the 16th. No, it work the same as the normal quantize feature, it actually moves the 16th notes to the 1/8 note position. The result is you will have 2 or more notes on top of each other. They are hidden underneath. This can actually result in a silent note with some synths.

It would be a good idea to actually read the user manual. The ASIO Driver will show you the available live inputs. Don’t get that mixed up with tracks. The tracks get transferred once recorded to the device, not live. Do you see 12 inputs? No. You should totally remove asio4all from your computer. Always use the ASIO driver when supplied

I think you need to rethink your work flow. When you say “doesn’t everyone work this way? “ Well, no. Experience taught us to just bypass the effects while tracking. End of story. Only exception would be guitar sims. Best to do those very early in the game. I have not had any issues when tracking if all I have going on is pro channel stuff. Because I’m using direct monitoring, just like bitflipper latency is not an issue for me. Latency is more of a issue when I try and add new midi tracks later on. So I just hit the bypass button The type of effects that causes the most added latency are most always mastering effects. Nobody should be mastering while they track. Ya we all sort of start a raw mix as we roll along but that’s mixing not mastering. There is a toggle for “bypass effects of this type “ might sort of work for you. I’ve never tried it.

I think it’s a demo version and would have expired. So possibly it can’t be re installed using the same account once it expires. I you did purchase a licence for Melodyne 5 then you go directly to the Celemony website and download directly from there

Actually the velocity was real low as well. Looked like about 40 to me. And your screen shot didn't include the thing I was looking for the MIdi channel and Patch boxes. That is were you set any changes. Or you can set those to NONE and use the GUI to set patches.

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Did you not read the very first solution ? the OP needed to switch to the proper ASIO driver. You’re using WASAPI which not all devices support.

I often give very short answers in this QA sub forum because just like this thread as an example , 1 post OP So why waste time typing out long answers unless you know they are actually going to be engaging with the topic. I do a lot of remote recording and swap projects between computer all the time. I also use external hard drives to transfer projects. They always work for me. You have choices. Some are easier than others.

If this was true this forum would have thousands of posts. Obviously it’s only certain plug ins some of you are using that are misbehaving. You need to find them and then report this to Cakewalk so they can sort it out. And hopefully all involved in this thread are using ASIO audio interfaces and have optimized things properly

It won’t touch your VST folder or any 3rd party folders. But the stuff that comes free with Cakewalk is inside the Cakewalk folders so probably removes that. You will loose any 3 rd party VSTs that got installed to there as well. That’s why it’s a good idea not to use that folder for none Cakewalk stuff Just copy that folder to outside of Cakewalk folder Or better to re install them and make sure to choose a none Cakewalk folder this time